Blending Times


Blending Times is Ravi Coltrane's fifth album as a band leader, and second for Savoy Records.
Five of the tracks on this album are group improvisations "conceived and directed by Ravi Coltrane" that don't follow a standard time signature or preset measures lengths, reminiscent of free jazz popularized by Ornette Coleman.
The album's final track, "For Turiya", is a eulogy for Alice Coltrane, Ravi's mother, the wife of John Coltrane and a musician in her own right, who died during the album's recording.
Blending Times reached 36 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart, his second time making the chart.

Track listing

All compositions by Ravi Coltrane, except where noted
  1. "Shine" – 5:49
  2. "First Circuit" – 3:45
  3. "A Still Life" – 6:17
  4. "Epistrophy" – 7:48
  5. "Amalgams" – 4:18
  6. "Narcined" – 4:49
  7. "One Wheeler Will" – 7:31
  8. "The Last Circuit" – 4:18
  9. "Before With After" – 2:49
  10. "For Turiya" – 9:03

Personnel

;Musicians
;Technicians, producing, & others

Recording notes